Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James Couzens, Michigan's millionaire Senator, the U. S. Treasury last week sent a check for $989,833. The Senator accepted it, though noting formally that there was a "slight miscalculation" of $20,000 or more for interest. The money was a tax refund which Senator Couzens won as the result of a fight started by the Internal Revenue Bureau three years ago to increase the Couzens profit-tax on Ford Motors stock sold by him in 1919 (TIME, January...
...first important All-American selections-those submitted last week by the New York Evening Sun and Post-were agreed that Otto Pommerening of Michigan should be left tackle, Henry R. Fund of Georgia Tech, center, Seraphim Post, of Stanford, right guard, Howard Harpster, of Carnegie Tech, quarterback, Kenneth Strong of N. Y. U. and Christian Cagle of Army, halfbacks. For fullback, Scull of Penn and Carroll of Washington were leading...
...Arbor, Joseph E. Maddy of the University of Michigan School of Music, worked on the details of a plan whereby a National High School Orchestra of some 150 of the most talented high school musicians will go next summer to Europe, play at the World Conference on Education at Geneva, at the Anglo-American Music Conference at Lausanne, perhaps in London, Berlin, other capitals...
...southern trip have also been announced for the debating team. The former will come in the early spring and will be for the purpose of meeting western universities on the rostra. The schedule for this has not yet ben decided on, but will probably include the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago. The plans for the southern trip, which will take place later in the spring, probably in April, are as yet in an undeveloped state...
...Arbor, at the University of Michigan, are nearly 10,000 students. For the several thousands who must board in Ann Arbor homes, the Board of Regents planned last September an $800,000 dormitory. At this, there arose bitter and prolonged outcry from some 7,000 landladies who will be left boarderless...